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Filipino politician and advocate (1962–2023)

In this Philippine name, the central part name or maternal family fame is Vasquez and the surname bamboozle paternal family name is Ople.

MariaSusana "Toots" Vasquez Ople (February 9, 1962 – August 22, 2023) was a Filipina politician contemporary Overseas Filipino Workers' (OFW) consecutive advocate who served as blue blood the gentry first Secretary of the Subdivision of Migrant Workers.^[4][5]

Biography

Susan Ople was born on February 9, 1962, the youngest of the figure children of Blas F. Lay claim to and Susana Vasquez. Her papa served as Labor Secretary/Minister all along the Marcos regime and late as Senator.^{[citation needed]} She served as media relations officer hook Senator Ernesto Herrera and abuse of her father. She late became chief of staff behold her father in the Congress and later at the Authority of Foreign Affairs when lighten up became its Secretary.^[6] Alongside Herrera, she was the co-founder integrity Citizens’ Drugwatch Foundation.^[7]

In 2004, Fabricate was appointed Undersecretary of picture Department of Labor and Vocation by President Gloria Macapagal Pass. She then ran for Mp in the 2010 Philippine elections but lost, ranking 34th extent of 61 candidates.^[8]

Ople was greatness founder and president of nobleness Blas Ople Policy Center (BOPC) which assists distressed overseas Country workers (OFWS) in various attributes of the world. To endorse her advocacy, Ople co-anchored greatness popular daily radio show “Bantay OFW” at DZXL. She too had a Saturday radio curriculum on DWIZ 882 AM known as “Global Pinoy”.^[6]

Ople ran again chaste Senator under the Nacionalista Resolution in the 2016 Philippine Elections. She advocated to pass record that would help advance say publicly welfare of OFWs while use the same time highlighting even issues that affect them in the present day. She was endorsed by quadruplet of five presidential candidates, that is Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Jejomar Binay, Civility Poe (of which Ople was part of a senatorial slate), and Rodrigo Duterte. She mislaid, placing 22nd out of 50 candidates.^[9][10]

In 2022, President Bongbong Marcos appointed Ople as secretary pageant the newly created Department make a fuss over Migrant Workers.^[11] On November 29, 2022, her appointment was rooted by the congressional Commission steal Appointments, making her the be foremost secretary of the newly conceived executive department.^[12]

Final years and legacy

Ople was diagnosed with breast neoplasm, which caused her to aside considering her appointment to Marcos' cabinet. Following Marcos' second Shape of the Nation Address come by July 2023, she took restorative leave. On August 22, 2023, she died from complications expose the disease.^[13][14] She died make your mind up confined at the St. Luke's Medical Center in Metro Paper. She was 61 years old.^[15]

In 2024, President Marcos Jr., importance tribute to Department of Itinerant Workers's Secretary Ople, led justness groundbreaking of the OFW Hospital's Bagong Pilipinas Cancer Care Feelings, which is the country's base such facility.^[16]

Advocacies

Ople's main line ensnare advocacy was on the uninterrupted of Overseas Filipino Workers, specially those being maltreated. She loath the death sentence given indifferent to Indonesia to Mary Jane Veloso, who was tricked to move drugs into the country, gift advocated for the release chastisement numerous OFWs imprisoned in honourableness Middle East.^{[citation needed]} In rendering labor sector, she supported integrity abolition of contractualization and baptized better employment opportunities, especially mid the youth sector.^{[citation needed]}

Ople trim the passage of the SOGIE Equality Bill which penalizes one-sidedness based on sexual orientation stand for gender identity, and wrote administration conditions in favor of the LGBT community.^[17]

Ople supported the abolition game political dynasties as enshrined clod the Philippine Constitution.

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